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Definition of Gourd family
1. Noun. A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin).
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Campanulales, Order Campanulales
Specialized synonyms: Cucurbit
Member holonyms: Gourd, Gourd Vine, Cucurbita, Genus Cucurbita, Genus Bryonia, Citrullus, Genus Citrullus, Cucumis, Genus Cucumis, Ecballium, Genus Ecballium, Genus Lagenaria, Lagenaria, Genus Luffa, Genus Momordica, Momordica
Derivative terms: Cucurbitaceous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gourd Family
Literary usage of Gourd family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"gourd family. 1759- Climbing or trailing, herbaceous vines, usually with tendrils.
Leaves alternate, petioled, generally palmately lobed or dissected. ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... (gourd family.) Herbs, with succulent stems, climbing by means of lateral
tendrils. Leaves alternate, palmately veined or lobed. ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... gourd family. Mostly tendril-bearing herbs, with succulent but not fleshy
herbage, watery juice, alternate palmately ribbed and mostly lobed or angled ..."
4. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"By the same token I learned that the gourd family was very susceptible of cross-
fertilisation, even between different varieties, for by planting the seeds ..."
5. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"gourd family. Fruit smooth and glabrous : ovules and seeds numerous, horizontal.
i. MELOTHRIA. Fruit prickly and often pubescent : ovules and seeds ..."
6. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... gourd family. Mostly tendril-bearing herbs, with succulent but not fleshy
herbage, watery juice, alternate palmately ribbed and mostly lobed or angled ..."
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